A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Will Santino, Ellis Rosen, Kit Fraser, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Timothy Cahill and Ryan Walls). _____________________________________________________________________________ Book Stories I thought it would be fun, on
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Finding Freddie Packard The “spot” drawings you see above were drawn by Freddie Packard, who began working at The New Yorker in 1929 — he passed away in November of 1974, at age 71 (one of his “spot” drawings appeared in the issue of November 4, 1974). The “spots” were just one of the feathers in Mr. Packard’s New Yorker
Read moreLate word last night of the sudden passing of a fine fellow, Thomas Vinciguerra, who authored Cast Of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, And The Golden Age Of The New Yorker, and edited Backward Ran Sentences: The Best Of Wolcott Gibbs. Mr. Vinciguerra, who contributed to The New Yorker‘s Talk Of The Town, was also interviewed by the
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